Feature: Graphic design
Andy Altmann remembered
Friends and colleagues pay tribute to the designer, co-founder of Why Not Associates and devotee of typographic oddities, comedy and football, who died in October 2025
Empire of posters
A
recent Berlin exhibition and its hefty catalogue demonstrate the
enduring power of Japanese designer / artist Tadanori Yokoo, who
turns 90 this year
Reputations: Samar Maakaroun
‘Lebanon
was bombed. My sister-in-law was evacuated. I can’t just talk about
type and design. Who am I? How phoney would I be if that’s all I’m
talking about?
Supernova
Provocative photographer and art director Harri Peccinotti stylishly reflected his times, from jazz and advertising to Nova magazine. Profile by Serge Ricco
Light fantastic
Kate Dawkins designs events that use time, light and motion on a grand scale, projecting on anything from giant, multiple screens to the uneven walls of an ancient castle. By Amy Henry
Henrietta Condak: Mistress of Masterworks
Working in-house for CBS, this prolific art director combined illustration, lettering, typography and photography to make a significant body of design for serious music. By Elizabeth Resnick [EXTRACT]
Reputations: Rob Saunders
‘We are in a moment of fascination with everything analogue, especially for designers who spend all day working on screens for screens. For them, it’s refreshing and mind-opening and inspiring in some magical way I can’t fully explain.’ Interview: Eric Heiman [EXTRACT]
Reputations: Margaret Calvert
‘If I look back at my beginning and everything, it’s learning on the job. You teach yourself and you pick up things and you look and you research – and it happens.’ Interview by John L. Walters and Simon Esterson. Portrait by Philip Sayer
Jump cuts
Motion design is everywhere. The gleaming screens of our phones, TVs and poster sites demand more and more ways to make words and pictures dance in space and time. By John L. Walters
Mark Holt: Games, set and dispatch
The title page credit for Munich ’72: The Visual Output of Otl Aicher’s Dept XI reads ‘Researched, written, edited, designed and published by Mark Holt.’ Interview by John L. Walters